Summer 2020 Data Journalism Intern

Deadline

Requirements

College juniors, seniors and graduate students who are enrolled in school full-time as of the application deadline are eligible to apply for the college internship programs. This includes December graduates. Former professionals (those who have worked full-time on staff as a journalist for a year or more) in the U.S. or abroad are not eligible. 

Application Process

Students must complete an online application where you will be prompted to create your candidate profile and answer job-specific questions for each program. You must complete all eight sections of an application in one session or the information will not be saved. After clicking “Submit,” you will not be able to return to the application. 
We recommend you begin once you have assembled all the required items:

  • A résumé
  • An unofficial transcript
  • Complete contact information for two references
  • A personal essay [Describe the journalistic skills that make you an asset in an interactive newsroom whether working as a business reporter, data journalist, digital journalist or news editor. Submit no more than 500 words.]

We strongly recommend printing a copy of each completed section as you progress for your records. You may upload the same documents to multiple applications.

Application Assessment

Students are required to complete a one-hour data journalism test and submit a multiplatform editing application for this program. Students may test and apply to multiple programs. If there is no test monitor at your school, you can ask a professor or faculty member to proctor the test for you. Tests are sent to professors in early fall and testing continues up to the application deadline. To prepare, it is strongly recommended students review previous versions of the tests, a link is posted below.

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Practice Tests

Compensations

Students selected for the college internship programs receive immersive, specialized, all-expenses-paid pre-internship training, weekly salaries of at least $450 for a minimum of 10 weeks, $1,500 scholarships for students and graduates with federal loans, and access to the Dow Jones News Fund Alumni Network. DJNF also provides one-year memberships to all multiplatform editing interns to ACES: The Society for Editing and the Online News Association.

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Sponsor Organization
Dow Jones News Fund